Women's Empowerment and Ideal Family Size: An Examination of DHS Empowerment Measures In Sub-Saharan Africa.
CONTEXT: The Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) program collects data on women's empowerment, but little is known about how these measures perform in Sub-Saharan African countries. It is important to understand whether women's empowerment is associated with their ideal number of children and abilit...
| Publicado en: | International Perspectives on Sexual & Reproductive Health Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 78 - 90 |
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Guttmacher Institute, Inc.
Jun2012
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=104487601&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 104487601 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 19440391 8YW4 jtl: International Perspectives on Sexual & Reproductive Health issn: 19440391 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jun2012 vid: 38 iid: 2 pid: 13 pub: Guttmacher Institute, Inc. place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 104487601 78292490 10.1363/3807812 104487601 ppf: 78 ppct: 12 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Women's Empowerment and Ideal Family Size: An Examination of DHS Empowerment Measures In Sub-Saharan Africa. aug: au: Upadhyay, Ushma D. Karasek, Deborah affil: Assistant research scientist, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco, USA sug: subj: Women's Health Mothers Africa South of the Sahara Empowerment Evaluation Family Relations Human Africa South of the Sahara Decision Making Maternal Role Linear Regression Multivariate Analysis Intimate Partner Violence Confidence Intervals Odds Ratio Conceptual Framework Data Analysis Software Female Adolescence Young Adult Adult Middle Age Adolescent: 13-18 years Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Female ab: CONTEXT: The Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) program collects data on women's empowerment, but little is known about how these measures perform in Sub-Saharan African countries. It is important to understand whether women's empowerment is associated with their ideal number of children and ability to limit fertility to that ideal number in the Sub-Saharan African context. METHODS: The analysis used couples data from DHS surveys in four Sub-Saharan African countries: Guinea, Mali, Namibia and Zambia. Women's empowerment was measured by participation in household decision making, attitudes toward wife beating and attitudes toward refusing sex with one's husband. Multivariable linear regression was used to model women's ideal number of children, and multivariable logistic regression was used to model women's odds of having more children than their ideal. RESULTS: In Guinea and Zambia, negative attitudes toward wife beating were associated with having a smaller ideal number of children (beta coefficients, -0.5 and -0.3, respectively). Greater household decision making was associated with a smaller ideal number of children only in Guinea (beta coefficient, -0.3). Additionally, household decision making and positive attitudes toward women's right to refuse sex were associated with elevated odds of having more children than desired in Namibia and Zambia, respectively (odds ratios, 2.3 and 1.4); negative attitudes toward wife beating were associated with reduced odds of the outcome in Mali (0.4). CONCLUSIONS: Women's empowerment--as assessed using currently available measures--is not consistently associated with a desire for smaller families or the ability to achieve desired fertility in these Sub-Saharan African countries. Further research is needed to determine what measures are most applicable for these contexts. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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